First the obvious:
Every journey starts with the first step!
Upgrading NomadBSD manually is not optimal, BUT a perfectly fine first step to do your own desktop installation from the ground up - or a learning experience in how FreeBSD functions…
I trust other users are capable of taking their own decisions.
Also I see NomadBSD as a “gateway drug” to FreeBSD just like pfSense and earlier FreeNAS/TrueNAS(now hopefully zVault) and PC-BSD.
See my posts like a helping hand for the users going in that direction.
Personally I don’t see anything wrong with the above!? -you tell me?
Yes, in the far future I aspire to actively contribute to FreeBSD.
In the meantime by posting on ie. this forum, hopefully it will nudge other users in the same direction or just help them along with a problem.
Wouldn’t it have been more helpful, if your post was formulated as an (elaborated - even if it is obvious) advise to other users without a pointing finger - but you do you…
Have a nice day 